Resurfaced Vivek Ramaswamy Video Probably Won't Help His Ohio Governor Campaign

A resurfaced video from January 2023 probably won’t help Vivek Ramaswamy’s chances of winning the Ohio governor’s race.

In the video, taken at Hillsdale College, a conservative Christian school in Michigan, the former Republican presidential candidate and brief DOGE co-chair, seems to damn his home state with faint praise.

Ramaswamy began his speech titled “The Rebellious Entrepreneur” with a few remarks about looking for possible interns while at the school before relating a conversation he had with a student from Indiana named Emily.

She asked him what his favorite state was and wanted to know if it was his home state, Ohio.

Ramaswamy, who has a 7.7% stake in BuzzFeed, the parent company of HuffPost, told the audience, “Ohio’s a good state, I just can’t say it’s the best state.”